Jane Wright: The One And Only Inventor Of Chemotherapy

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Jane Wright, The One and Only Inventor of Chemotherapy
Jakob Young and Taylor Holmes

Jane Wright has changed our society. “She was one of the first researchers to test chemotherapeutic drugs in humans, which produced effective dosing levels and helped save lives” (“Changing the Face of Medicine”). She helped people with cancer by using a new treatment called chemotherapeutic drugs, which helped terminate the odds of having cancer. She mostly worked on patients by giving them chemotherapy, which has a bad effect but a good cause. The effect of doing chemotherapy is hair falling out, but the good part is that it helps cure the cancer.
Jane Wright went to a medical college, which led to her career. “Jane Wright graduated with honors from

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